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Akiba Girls | Akiba Kei Kanojo | OVA 1-2-3

Nikita Shindou loves the world of animation more than anything; he puts his life into it. He has never fallen for a real, living girl, until the day he meets Ren Aoi. What can he do to make her notice him, even fall in love with him? “I know, I will make her an Akiba Girl!” Now the question is, how will he make her an Akiba Girl? Let the games begin!

Plot Summary: Shindo Nikita has a secret that he has been hiding for a long time—he loves hentai and H-games. He enters "The Alternative Trivia Research Club", where the first of his many sexual encounters takes place. Despite that, he finds out that both of his foster sisters are in love with him, and he has to make a choice—who he really loves.

Akiba Girls (アキバ系彼女 Akiba Kei Kanojo?) is a 3-episode Japanese hentai original video animation series produced by Milky. It is licensed by both Hustler Video and JapanAnime in United States. The first OVA was released on VHS and DVD simultaneously on June 25, 2004. The second was released on September 25, 2004. The third was released on June 25, 2006.

Plot

Shindo Nikita has a secret that he has been hiding for a long time—he loves hentai and h-games. He enters "The Alternative Trivia Research Club" where the first of his many sexual encounters takes place. Despite that, he finds out that both of his foster sisters are in love with him, and he has to make a choice—who does he really love. Nikita Shindou loves the world of animation more than anything; he puts his life into it. He has never fallen for a real, living girl, until the day he meets Ren Aoi.
We're introduced to young man Nikita Shindou as he's making his way through Akihabara, which is his main haunt and the place where he gets all his bishōjo games, which he plays in his room all alone in the dark. Keeping them a secret from his sister who just moved in a few months ago after their parents had died, Nikita loves playing up the characters having sex with each other and manipulating them as he can. To his surprise on his way home though, he comes across a park he hadn't remembered before and sees a beautiful woman there, one that reminds him strikingly of an older Sheeta from Laputa: Castle in the Sky! Even more amazing is that she comes into his room in some sort of dream sequence not too much later and keeps calling him Pazu and the two fool around quite a bit only for it to end up as a dream.

Characters

Nikita Shindo (新堂 二貴太 Shindo Nikita?) is the protagonist and is a college student. He is an "akiba-addict". His parents died when he was little in a car crash and he was saved by Ren when she was an angel. He has been living with Mei ever since.
Tamaye Akiyoshi (秋吉 珠恵 Tomae Akiyoshi?) is a cosplayer and a member of the same club as Nikita. Voiced by: Junko Kusayanagi
Hatoko Konoha (木乃葉 鳩子 Konoha Hatoko?) is an older adopted sister of Nikita, which is why she has a different surname. She is drunk most of the time and seems to have feelings for Nikita, but this could be her just being drunk. Voiced by: Kaori
Ren Aoi (蒼井 恋 Aoi Ren?) Ren is an angel, who had saved Nikita from death in the same crash which his parents died from. Since this was changing the destiny of a human, which is forbidden for angels to do so, Ren is punished by God to live on the Earth temporarily neither as an angel or human. By the end of the episodes, it was time for her to leave Earth, as she had served out her sentence. Voiced by: Komugi Nishida
Mei Shindo (新堂 鳴 Shindo Mei?) is the adopted little sister of Nikita. From living with Nikita for so long, she has developed feelings for him which he doesn't realise until Hakoto tells him. Voiced by: Nene[disambiguation needed ]
Renka Misaki (岬 蓮香 Misaki Renka?) has a tsundere personality. She is a voice actress and is also a member of the same club as Nikita. Voiced by: Renka

Akiba Kei Kanojo

Synopsis
Shindo Nikita has a secret that he has been hiding for a long time—he loves hentai and h-games. He enters "The Alternative Trivia Research Club" where the first of his many sexual encounters takes place. Despite that, he finds out that both of his foster sisters are in love with him, and he has to make a choice—who does he really love?

Akiba Girls Synopsis
Shindou Nikita (yes, his name's Nikita! Вы говорите по русски?) has a deep dark secret that he's been hiding from his adopted sisters.
No, he's not Russian, and he's not actually a female assassin, either. No, he's an otaku who enjoys hentai games, which theoretically should mean he is a fairly scary guy who doesn't have a snowball's chance in a Tokyo summer of getting laid, except that this is a hentai title, so he's not only going to get to screw female versions of himself, but also his adopted sisters, too!

Review
Akiba Girls could have been a quirky, tongue-in-cheek look at the hentai industry. After all, one female character leads into a sex scene with the actual premise that she needs practice for her next job as, yes, a hentai voice actress. If that isn't self-referential, I don't know what is.
Sadly, apart from that particular set of lines, Akiba Girls is otherwise a dull, unoriginal show with mediocre sex scenes that often highlight just what I find to be wrong about hentai anime in general.
For starters, most of the girls are saddled with breasts that do not match their body types. This is one of the things that annoys me the most in American pornography, and the transition to Japanese cartoons has not changed this for me. I guess it's because I am married and therefore always have to concern myself with issues such as proper back support. Or maybe it's because I'm just a guy who really likes boobs. Either way, fake boobs irk me, and the boobs on the Akiba Girls are as fake as they get.
The same could be said for the plot. We are expected to believe that Nikita (who's pretty good-looking for an utter geek) is supposed to go from unpopular to sex machine overnight. Uh huh, sure. It's pretty silly to begin with, but when his adopted sisters start professing their undying love lust for him, that's when things get utterly ridiculous.
Since I already commented on the fake-looking breasts, I should be fair and criticize the rest of the animation, which is really rather lousy and doesn't work well with the standard hentai-game art style being used here. We also have another hentai cliche I really don't understand -- the fire-hose penis. Now, it is scientifically proven that the average ejaculation only measures about two or so tablespoons -- not much on the grand scheme of things, but certainly more than enough to do what is intended. In hentai anime, this figure magically rises to gallons, and Nikita apparently can get spray on a girl's face during an internal release. This guy is a one-man bukkake team, and it isn't arousing so much as headshakingly stupid.